First Call for Papers
Visual Physical
Discourses on Sport and Performance Cultures
The University of Sheffield, UK
1-2 July 2010
The School of Modern Languages and Linguistics and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Sheffield is hosting an international two-day conference on the Visual Physical in world cultures (European, Hispanic, Anglo- and Lusophone, amongst others) in July 2010. We are looking to build on our very successful 2002 'Sporting Cultures' event via a specific focus on the visual dimension of the physical, and broadening the disciplinary base to include sociological, historical, philosophical and anthropological approaches to, for example, cinema, theatre, dance, burlesque and sport-spectacle.
We would like to invite proposals for papers of 20 minutes' duration on the visual dimension of sport, theatrical and 'leisure' performance, staging, projection and representation. We are particularly interested in cross-cutting discourses and less established perspectives which might illuminate and reinvigorate our understanding of how sport and diverse theatrical and performance arts, as well as other visual interpretations of physical culture, embed themselves in our personal consciousness and challenge tradition, both conceptually and methodologically. The Conference will incorporate plenary speakers, shorter scholarly presentations and talks from the wider sporting/performing community.
It is intended that a refereed volume of articles deriving from presentations will be published.
For further information or to submit a proposal, please contact Dr Louise Johnson or Dr David Wood. Proposals of 250–300 words should include name, email, postal address and professional affiliation. The deadline for proposals is 29 January 2010.
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